Problems BA can face while requirement gathering  Conflicting requirements/Controdictory StatementsUndocumented ProcessLack of access to the end-usersBad requirementsStakeholder's d...

I feel the main problem which a BA faces is changing requirements. In some project the requirements keep on changing.
The BA has to keep a track of all those requirements.

A business plan is evaluated by checking the contents of the plan such as, if the plan have based on the resource planning and envisioning phase of the project.

As the Role suggests a Ba is a bridge between the customer/end user and the technical teams, implies that a Ba should definitely have basic clarity on softwares/technologies used so that he is able to...

I believe, while framing our functional requirements one must be functionally & technically equipped to understand the feasibility - if that approach suggested can be feasible to be developed with...

Depicting fundamentally new ways of considering business functions' process redesign has also been referred to as process reengineering, requiring vision and concepual skills to develop innovative solutions for existing problems.

Well on the very first attempt both seek to improve the existing process. But business process improvement goes an extra mile to further optimise this helps in reducing cost along with improving quali...

It depends on the project to project it is not always the same that we do interect with the clients directy,some time there will be a team whom might be interecting with the client and gives you the requirement and if have questions either we do talk with that team or our maganer.

Yes, they can interact with the clients directly, since a client can be internal like the end users, managers and supervisors within the company.

requirement analysis can be done by different techniques such as questioning and interviewing,requirements workshop,brainstorming and idea reduction,storyboards,role play so on ..........

Business analyst can do requirement analysis through various techniques such as interview, brain storming, JAD session. JAD session is excellent way to collect high quality requirements under one roof using facilitated workshop.

The position is important because a BA is a people’s person when it comes to the users and an IT person when it comes to the developers. He can communicate with the users in jargon that they are com...

As he is the person who acts like an liaison between stakeholders and technical team, in order to elicit ,analyze ,communicate and validate requirements for changes in business process, policies and i...

UML uses many concepts from many sources. 1. For Structure:Actor, Attribute, Class, Component, Interface, Object, Package. 2. For Behavior:Activity,Event, Message, Method, Operation, State, use case. ...

There is no specific qualification for a business analyst. Well, if you are a management graduate it is an added advantage since you have they have better communication skills. One important thing a B...

I dont know here the education is the matter,only it matter is how good we are at things and even b.sc person or mba person both does it the same way,only key point here is learning the things and grapping them and understand and mostly good communication.

It is used by: Business: Act as a documentation repository for their business process and what they expect from the system being built. The BRD's are signed off by business. Dev team: They would r...

The output will be used by the Both IT and Non-It People,as IT people use this document as key for the building of the application and Non - It people use those document where they can see prototype of their application.

Primarily communications problem.As BA bridge the gap between business community and technical community. So, they work as a skilled professional who captures requirements from business (non-technical...

As a BA, The most critical part is in gathering requirements (we should understand them very well from a Business User /stake holder point of view!!!)Reason: There might be a chance for the whole proj...

I just got it in this site http://www.iscid.org/encyclopedia/Equivalence_ClassEquivalence class, a mathematical concept, is a subset of given set induced by an equivalence relation on that given ...

Most of the business analysts use following Tools:

- Microsoft Office
- Microsoft Visio
- IBM Requisite Pro
- BPMN 2.0
- SharePoint

Offcourse most important tools are communication skill and interpretation power.

As mentioned out by some of the incumbents here, Business Analysis is more to do with documentation of the requirements and how efficiently the expert communicates information across to the team devel...

The analysis techniques that I have used:Lay out business problemsDepicting business problems by grapical structures using MS visio, rational s/w tool, simple flowchartsWell organized JAR sessions wit...

When the Business Obectives are set then BA makes a Requirements documentation in which the analysis is done by various techniques like Stakeholder interview,Goals,JRD sessions ,prototypes,usecas...

Business Requirements depict the features or needs the business is looking for. They represent what they are expecting from the system. Functional Requirements depict how the system should represen...

while preparing Business requirements documents you mention why you need to bulit a system, i.e. problem statement. What you need to do while creating functional requirements is you have to specify is...